Monday, 21 January 2013

Earl Grey Poppy Seed Tea Cakes

I hope everyone is enjoying the snow in London like I do. I am Lithuania after all!

Anyway (change of the subject), around to weeks ago I came across this recipe on SprinkleBakes website that blew my mind. I honestly get excited when I see nontraditional ingredients matched together. So I made it! I changed the the deco to more "natural" looking and it came out like something really suitable to serve on St. Valentines day (very dainty as my flat mate said). But I could not wait until February... so there you go!

To make the syrup stir together sugar and water in a small saucepan. Place over medium-high heat and bring to a
bubble. Stir to make sure all the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and place the teabags in the
hot sugar syrup to steep. Infuse for 5-7
minutes, then remove and discard tea bags.
Set aside to cool.

To make buttercream cream butter
together with sugar. Add orange extract and lemon juice; beat again for
another minute until light and fluffy. Add zests and mix until smooth. Transfer to a piping
bag or zip-top bag with the end snipped (no decorator tip necessary)

To assemble brush each cake circle with the syrup and apply some buttercream on top of 12 of them. Join three together leaving the one for the top without the cream. Dust the tops with icing sugar. I used small heart shaped cookie cutter as a stencil to make poppy seed deco on top.

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I will start with saying that I was never born as a perfect cook. I only
got in love with baking and food later in life when I moved to London
and had no other option as learning to satisfy my all time hunger for
cakes. Yes, it is bad habit to eat sweet, especially just after the
dinner but every time I can't resist the feeling that somehow the dinner
is just not completed without the dessert!
My learning took bit by bit from watching my friends cook and eventually
from following the recipes. My first time experience on baking was when
I was 9 years old. I baked a cake to impress my mum for her birthday. I
don’t know what went wrong, but it came out really flat, thin and
unbaked inside. I will always remember the expression on my mum's face:
she was trying to eat it with the smile on her face. So... if after this
I can bake I believe everybody have a potential to do it too. The most
important ingredient for it is love for food!
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